Aarushi case: Court rejects Talwar's plea for reinvestigation

GHAZIABAD: A CBI court here rejected a plea by Dr Rajesh Talwar for reinvestigation in Aarushi murder case and announced January 7 as the next date of hearing the CBI's closure report in the case.

Aarushi' father, Rajesh Talwar, had filed the protest plea against CBI's closure report requesting that the case not be closed as requested by the investigating agency.

In his application, he submitted that he was the "unfortunate parent of Aarushi", who was murdered on the intervening night of May 15-16, 2008.

In his five-point application, Talwar stated that it was a "heinous" crime and "in the interest of justice", the central bureau of investigation (CBI) should not be allowed to close the case.

Rejecting the plea, the court said, "It is too early to move a plea against closure report."

Earlier in the day, the court registered the CBI's report seeking closure of the Aarushi Talwar murder case. The court, however, questioned the agency on its haste to shut the case.

Fourteen-year-old Aarushi was found murdered under mysterious circumstances in her parents' Jalvayu Vihar apartment in Noida, Delhi's suburban town in Uttar Pradesh, May 16, 2008. The family's domestic help, Hemraj, was also found killed on the flat's terrace a day later.

The CBI Wednesday moved the Ghaziabad court seeking permission to close the Aarushi murder as an unsolved case on grounds of lack of conclusive evidence.

The closure report has named Aarushi's dentist father Rajesh Talwar as the lone suspect in the case and said the crime scene was heavily "dressed up", which could only have been done by the parents.